It's been 60 years since President Johnson signed the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and brought us closer to fulfilling our founding promise – that we’re all created equal and deserve equal treatment.
I look forward to commemorating that legacy today at the LBJ Presidential Library.
John Schmitt
Economist, formerly EPI, CEPR (DC), WCEG, and CEP (LSE).
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California Is Showing How a Big State Can Power Itself Without Fossil Fuels | The New Yorker https://www.newyorker.com/news/daily-comment/california-is-showing-how-a-big-state-can-power-itself-without-fossil-fuels “Beginning in early March, for some portion of almost every day, a combination of #solar, #wind, #geothermal, and hydropower has been producing more than a hundred per cent of the state’s demand for electricity. Some afternoons, solar panels alone have produced more power than the state uses. And, at night … batteries .. are often the single largest source of supply to the grid”
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At Thursday's debate, Trump MUST ANSWER whether he intends to restrict or ban abortion pills
He was asked about this in an interview w/Time Magazine on April 12
Trump refused to answer but promised to release a statement within 14 days
It has been 75 days
Trump still has not answered
Trump's campaign says he doesn't need to state his position on regulating abortion pills because the issue has been resolved by the Supreme Court
THIS IS ABSOLUTELY FALSE
cc: @jaketapper
https://popular.info/p/one-question-trump-must-be-asked
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The kids who were 1st graders when 20 of their classmates were murdered in Newtown, CT are graduating from high school. “There is a whole chunk of our class missing.” More than 4200 mass shootings in the US since then, several of them at schools. https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cg33zqd5wyeo
US State "Governors Need to Do More to Protect Their Low-Income Residents from Climate Change Especially in the South"
New from CEPR's Algernon Austin.
https://cepr.net/extreme-weather-2/
# economics #climate
The Southern economic model fails Southern workers and their families: 7 of the 10 states with the lowest employment rates for 25-54 year olds (the population most tied to the labor market) are in the South.
See the latest Economic Policy Institute report by Chandra Childers.
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Male Trump supporters most likely (56%) to say falling birth rate is a bad thing https://www.pewresearch.org/politics/2024/06/06/gender-family-reproductive-issues-and-the-2024-election/
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Happy Birthday to Jonathan Michael Richman, songwriter, guitarist and founder of the influential proto-punk band Modern Lovers, born on this day in 1951, Natick, Massachusetts, US
Photo by Jeff Albertson
#protopunk #JonathanRichman #ModernLovers #history #punkrockhistory #otd
"Tight labor markets are essential to reducing racial disparities -- and within the purview of the Fed’s dual mandate" by Economic Policy Institute economist Valerie Wilson
Maps of union membership levels, changes, shares, and composition across the US states.
Via Hayley Brown and Emma Curchin, Center for Economic and Policy Research
https://cepr.net/states-of-the-unions-the-where-of-the-us-labor-movement/
"In the past 2.5 years, more than 60 groups of student workers have filed petitions for representation elections...Notably, student workers have won every single election that has been held, and student workers have voted by overwhelming margins to unionize. On average, a whopping 91.3% of student workers have voted in favor of forming a union during their elections."
-Lynn Rhinehart and Margaret Poydock, Economic Policy Institute
"Building Worker Power as Anti-Monopoly: The Next Phase of the Modern Antitrust Agenda"
Friday, May 10 / 1pm - 4pm EDT
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The Economic Policy Institute's Lynn Rhinehart, Celine McNicholas, and Margaret Poydock review the recent history of the US National Labor Relations Board.
The "Biden administration has supported workers’ rights to form unions and engage in collective bargaining, standing in stark contrast to the Trump administration’s anti-worker record."
https://www.epi.org/publication/bidens-nlrb-restoring-rights/
The United Auto Workers aligned their recent contracts with US automakers to all expire on April 30, 2028--to be prepared to strike the next day on May Day.
UAW President Shawn Fain says they did this "not as a symbolic gesture, but as a rallying cry. We’ve asked other unions to join us in setting their contract expiration dates to May Day 2028 in hopes the labor movement can collectively aspire to building the power needed to change the world."
https://inthesetimes.com/article/may-day-2028-general-strike-working-class
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Daimler Truck Workers in North Carolina Are Poised to Strike
A walkout by employees who make Freightliner trucks and Thomas Built buses would expand the U.A.W.’s campaigns in the South. #UnionStrong
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/26/business/daimler-truck-uaw-strike.html
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Boost if you still remember how to use these 😭
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So far this week...
The FTC banned the use of noncompete clauses.
The DOL strengthened overtime rules.
The FCC restored #NetNeutrality.
The DOT expanded protections for airline passengers.
This is what it looks like when the government works on behalf of the people.
As George Carlin asked: "Can God make a rock so big that he himself can't lift it?"
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Wow!!
How many young voters, do you think will vote Republican after being reminded what they stand for with this ad?
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